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Gallery: Faults: A GigaPan Gallery for Teaching Geology

Faults: A GigaPan Gallery for Teaching Geology

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A selected group of GigaPans illustrating geologic faults.

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  1. Just outside Arches National Park, near Moab, Utah.

  2. The Great Smoky thrust fault is the boundary of the Blue Ridge province. It places the Precambrian metamorphic rocks on top of the Ordovician Knox Group limestones. Near & within Great Smoky Mountain National Park, the fault is exposed in several erosional windows. Here at Tuckaleechee Cove, a small creek flows over...

  3. smal scale fold in the lower Boquilla member (Upper Creta)

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  4. Closeup of the Genoa Fault Plane near Genoa Nevada shows slickensides and deformed granite. The rock shown here essentially *is* the fault plane. For location information and broader views see the following. A gigapan oriented perpendicular to the Genoa Fault is here: www.gigapan.org/gigapans/97145 A gi...

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  5. The Genoa Fault forms this large fault scarp on the western side of the Carson Valley at the foot of the Sierra Nevada. The inclination of the fault plane towards the viewer, the height of the Sierra Nevada, and the presence of Sierran granite in the footwall of the fault makes this a large normal fault. Slickensides, ...

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  6. A closeup of the Genoa Fault shows Quaternary alluvium on the right downfaulted against Sierran granite on the left. The fault motion of the footwall block (left) moving up relative to the headwall block (right) makes this a normal fault. Since unconsolidated Quaternary sediments are involved in the faulting, the fault...

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  7. This is the range-front fault on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada in Genoa, Nevada. The smooth grey granite face is the fault plane. In the distance down-dropped alluvial material is visible faulted right up against the fault plane. The Sierra Nevada (left side) is moving up relative the Carson Valley (right side)...

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  8. Lisbon, CT

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  9. Failles Vivantes 2011

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  10. A Sevier-style thrust fault exposed west of Augusta, Montana, the French Thrust has emplaced Mississippian carbonates on top of Cretaceous shales. On the left (east), there is also some till, outwash, and colluvium. View is approximately to the south.

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